What Was It Like To Be Raided By The Vikings? | Wings Of A Dragon | Chronicle

For nearly 500 years the Norse people dominated the oceans, known by their remarkable ships and known for their death, destruction and burning down of anything in their way. They used sophisticated navigation methods and navigated safely over remarkably long distances.
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[@jamesdeen3011]

What is like to be raided by vikings? I don't know. This video has nothing to offer in this regard. However if you're interested in old videos renamed it was great.

[@Doo_Doo_Patrol]

I was looking for bloodshed and forgot about that after a while. I liked the content but still feel a little cheated.

[@jamesdeen3011]

@@Doo_Doo_Patrol definitely

[@Seven-ld9zv]

They always do this. It´s easier that way to sail around the copy right laws. They just name these documentaries at random.

[@alecrogers3120]

stop changing the names and just reposting videos its getting super annoying

[@mick7even]

I don’t understand…I found the latest. First time 😂

[@CleanerBeats]

@@mick7even same

[@katedix5248]

@@mick7even this channel often posts a "new" video that's the exact same as a previous one, just has a new title and thumbnail

[@beaudevore1990]

That’s right

[@biosnap_art]

I don't know when this documentary was made I visited this museum this very summer and is a bigger and nicer place, besides the building where the recovered Viking ships are they have a big yard with different things with some learning purpose like a small workshop for kids as well as a real workshop where you can see the tools and current work of the museum researchers, you can board on a warship replica made with the Viking construction techniques (maybe is the one they are building in the doc? :O) as well as trading ships and small boat replicas a really cool experience for those who like ships and Viking history. The Museum is near Copenhagen in Roskilde IDk like 30min.

[@anttam117]

Well, there’s footage of the WTC, and going to by the looks and video quality, this was probably record and aired between 1995 and 2000

[@katherinecollins4685]

Interesting documentary

[@Andrea-pm3dy]

Thanks 😊

[@scalperjack1]

repackaged video with a misleading clickbait title. shameful.

[@cosmiccharlie7399]

The title is click bait! Well done, but click bait nonetheless

[@toroleeriksen3784]

Stop calling Vikings Gods and believe «The Pagan Gods and believe» what do you know we don’t…?

[@markperrault5678]

So white northern Europeans were light years ahead of other races

[@Mr456sb]

Correct

[@FAli1900]

Do you think other races weren't exploring and building? The arab traders are documented saying how dirty and primitive Northern Europeans were...

[@sveingustafson5120]

🄿🅁🄾🄼🄾🅂🄼 😋

[@BenDover-tj8vf]

70% Norse , 100% pagan .

[@gabecunha2411]

good documentary but the title is misleading as it has nothing to say about what it was like to be raided by the vikings. as for how much of North America he explored i don't think they went any farther than the southern bank of the St Lawrence River. from what i understand they loved to take their longships upriver and why risk the open sea when there was a spectacular river to explore right by l'Anse aux Medeadows

[@heavyhittersgaming3759]

Thats my thoughts

[@sophrus]

This documentary is sooo wrong!!! I listened to many history lectures and Slavic Vikings are not Russia! How many times do people need to say that Slavic Viking did Kyiv Rus which is Ukraine! Russia is not Slavic and furthermore not created by Viking, Russia are Asians 🤦🏻‍♀️ and lives in their bubble up to 900s. I only watched 15 mins and it was such a waste of time. Learn History!!!

[@lulufavs4519]

Interesting documentary but subject had nothing to do with raiding. Misleading title!

[@PaHeadhunter]

42:25 “Why would anybody bother to go further?” What a ridiculous comment. It’s human nature to keep going further. If you know there’s more beyond where you’re at why wouldn’t you go further?

[@biosnap_art]

I think she used the wrong words, I think she meant out of convenience and preservation not lack of curiosity. I agree is more likely than not that they kept going down but I understand her point because it was a super hard and short life they lived, and those travels were very costly in resources, ships, and human lives, therefore they would find the first place worth exploring and if it was somewhat comfortable and safe they will settle to create a community, grow some crops and fruits, raise their children and go back to trade with Greenland and Iceland. That would be so time-consuming that they wouldn't have energy for the next risky journey further down even more so if they realized they had a big if not a lost battle to fight for the land and resources with the native Americans. I think that's what she meant.

[@anttam117]

“Even Erik the Red was forced to build a church for his wife.” Welp, it’s good to know that men have had to deal with their nagging wives in all cultures the world over…

[@PNWCagey-Dub]

The title of the video is very inaccurate. Change it to what it really is. “Vikings, their boats and sailing”.

[@CitizenX88]

Is the title of this video actually something people want to know ?

[@sims717]

Here in Maine ,( coast) couple hundred years ago, ship builders took to building houses also.alot of craftsmenship in the finish.interior and exterior.I worked/ replaced a lot, back in my day in carpentry.and back then they only had hand tools.

[@LowerTheBoom]

Scandinavians were Vikings and Vikings were Scandinavians.

[@Schwarzkald]

Actually non of the 900 Viking burials that were DNA test in Scandinavia where from Scandinavia they originated in Spain, Italy and Asia!

[@evensenj5670]

I think u mean wings of an eagle when vikinngs cut open the back pulled out lungsso when the personbreathrd looked like

[@Doo_Doo_Patrol]

How and where did they poop on those ships?

[@chrischris425]

probably in buckets and dumped overboard

[@Doo_Doo_Patrol]

@@chrischris425 Why not just a seat with a hole?

[@jennklein1917]

In a bucket, then over the side.

[@speakupriseup4549]

On the poop deck

[@Doo_Doo_Patrol]

@@speakupriseup4549 My dog thinks the poop deck is the landing leading upstairs.

[@VivianeJones]

I believe they were in all the mentioned places and even more! ❤

[@natsomething0]

To this day, when I see footage of the NYC skyline with the twin towers still standing, I have to take a moment and indulge the pain. Some wounds just don't heal.

[@gib59er56]

What do the twin towers have to do with the Vikings?

[@drazzle6267]

​@@gib59er56No mention of raids in this docu but I guess both events would cause severe PTSD. Lol

[@gib59er56]

@@drazzle6267 Oh yeah man!! No doubt about that. I was talking with a retired firefighter about 911, he said that it was almost impossible to move and see before the first tower dropped. He goes " I wasn`t getting anywhere at first so I stepped back and stopped trying to wiggle around. I kept hearing somebody pop off rounds of ammo, and I asked some guy right near me on the sidewalk who the fuck is shooting his pistol during all this shit? He said those are not gunshots, it is bodies hitting the ground and smearing like fuckin bugs you stomp on.

[@sarahr4099]

This really wasn't about what it was like to be raided by the Vikings. My grandparents came from Sweden and i always wonder if some of my ancestors went viking and raided my ancestors from England and Germany and if they had children with them. Is there a way to see if you have DNA of people who went viking? My uncle has done extensive family history research and my great ( how ever many greats) grandfather, Cardinal Henry Beaufort, was the son of King Edward the 3rd. Henry was said to have had an illegitimate child with a woman and I'm the grandchild of Henry. From what ive read about King Edward the 3rd, a very large portion of the population is descendant from him

[@KD400_]

Then what else would it be like. U do know y the vikings came to Europe and left their homelands right

[@jasonshumate6456]

Not Hundreds of Years, try 1,000s

[@keiththorpe9571]

I agree with Gunnar Eggertsson that, for the purposes of exploration, the Norse traveled further south than the settlement of L'Anse Aux Meadows. On the other side of the Atlantic, the Scandinavian Vikings traveled and explored pretty much everywhere that their ships could reach. All over Europe, deep into what is now Russia, through the Middle East, all around the Mediterranean and Africa, to the edges of Asia, they went everywhere. I don't see them just reaching Newfoundland and sitting there. They would have realized, just by their encounters with the indigenous Americans that they met, that they had reached a new land that no Europeans had ever been to. I think they would have been aching to explore further, and the natural course to set would have been south along the eastern seaboard. He went on to say he believed they might have ventured as far as Florida, and perhaps even into the Gulf of Mexico. Their ships were certainly capable of such voyages, and I agree with him there too.

[@evensenj5670]

They just found viking ruins sout nfd

[@evensenj5670]

I agreed and that why Aztecs thout omg they're back when the Spanish arrived

[@evensenj5670]

Slavic Vikings were the. Offspring

[@evensenj5670]

They found the stone in minn to be real not take it was an English teacher who said it was fake now the historians. Proved it real the guy who found it never should have washed it

[@patricialong5767]

My ancestors!

[@shazzzabanazz4789]

Mine to my ancestors r Scandinavian came here to Ireland and on my Scottish side it's strange to think if they hadn't invaded I wouldn't be here I'm only one that took the red hair from them

[@SteepSix]

So, where did they get the milk from? You know the milk they supposedly traded with in North America... Did they bring cows with them from Greenland? This milk story doesn't hold water. I seriously doubt there was a disagreement over milk!

[@christaylor8495]

zero to do with raiding by Vikings, click bait.

[@jayfigg6828]

OK

[@rico7180]

First to be raiding the comments

[@thekingoftheword]

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